WATFORD are the loan arrangers of English football and they are chasing promotion from the Championship with players borrowed from abroad. Now I can reveal two things.

ONE: The Football League will change the rules to stop anyone else doing anything similar.

TWO: The Premier League have no plans to prevent boss Gianfranco Zola using his legion of loanees if they go up.

Current Football League rules say a club can have only five loan players in a match-day squad. Premier League clubs can have only two loan players on their books at one time.

The Premier League have no plans to prevent boss Gianfranco Zola using his legion of loanees if they go up

But FIFA regard international loans as proper transfers, and Watford have exploited that loophole to borrow eight from Italian club Udinese and two from Granada in Spain – both clubs owned by the Italian Pozzo family, who bought control of Watford in June.

The loans end this summer, but if Watford move into the Premier League, nothing can stop them borrowing the same players again or shipping in a different job lot.

Listen Gianfranco, English clubs should not be development squads for foreign ones. Che puzza*, *That stinks.

Matej Vydra - on loan from parent club Udinese - has scored 20 goals for Watford this season